1864 Recruitment Broadside “Rally Round the Flag, Boys, Rally Once Again!”

…War Meeting!! Rev. Frederick Starr, Jr., Will address the citizens of… [New York, late 1863. Letterpress broadside. Matted and framed.

An enthusiastic broadside encouraging late-War recruitment. Opening with the patriotic quote, “Rally Round the Flag, Boys, Rally once again!”, the broadside advertises a “War Meeting” with Rev. Frederick Starr, Jr. encouraging all, but especially “All persons enrolled for the Draft” to “Turn Out! Turn Out!”

Frederick Starr, Jr. (1826-1867) was an abolitionist Presbyterian minister who participated in the Free Soil movement during the Bleeding Kansas era. From 1862 he was the minister of the Presbyterian Church in Penn Yan, New York until April 1865. Although the broadside was not complete with the location and date of the meeting, it is likely that this broadside may have been issued in Yates County, NY, or elsewhere in Western New York.

Rare, OCLC and online records found no other copies of this broadside. The papers of the Reverend Starr are held at the State Historical Society of Missouri.



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